Welcome to The Dressing Room

Dressing Room is an award winning restaurant built by Paul Newman and Michel Nischan with a vision of wholesome ingredients and a warm space to share everything "local" with friends and family. Our food is local, sustainable and organic!

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What’s New At DR

Reservations

DR Catering
Check out what’s happening at the Dressing Room this week! Click Here. This feature is coming soon! If you need a reservation please call us at 203.226.1114 Enjoy our award winning local, sustainable and organic food at your next party be it home, office or fabulous event space. We are a full service catering company. Click Here for more info or call us at 203.226.1114

No Goat Left Behind is a serious effort launched in 2011 by Heritage Foods USA designed to introduce goat meat to American diners and provide a sustainable end market for dairy animals. Without an end market farmers must face difficult choices each spring when the kids are born. [Did you know that most goats have twins or triplets?]

You may also be surprised to learn that goat is the most widely consumed meat in the world with a rich and diverse culinary history.
Most American’s have only had goat once or twice, usually in an ethnic restaurant when they where feeling bold. The flavor of our goat is delicate and grassy the cuts are similar in size and composition to lamb.

Goat dairies are in the business of making cheese. To make cheese you need milk, and to get milk each season the goats must have babies. In a weird way these babies are a bi-product of a farm that is looking to produce milk. The labor and feeding costs of caring for these babies is significant. Since the farm needs the mother’s milk to produce cheese, the babies are fed on expensive milk replacer, a goat version of baby formula. Without a dependable end market for these animals farmers simply cannot take on the financial burden and must face hard choices like selling the animals into the commodity market at a few days old or even killing them at birth.

You can change this reality by purchasing goat meat each fall from a trusted butcher like the Heritage Meat Shop in New York’s Historic Essex Market, eating in a restaurant that participates in the project or buying and cooking some goat yourself through our mail order program. However you choose to participate, we applaud your commitment to shaping a food system we can all be proud of. One that respects the realities our nation’s farmers face and honors the animals we consume.

Dressing Room is proud to  be one of the 100 restaurants participating in NO GOAT LEFT BEHIND.

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